> > Has anybody ever looked into implementing that? What architectures besides> > MIPS could take advantage of such a feature?> > On the intel its a huge win to map PCI frame buffers using 4Mbyte pages, but> the kernel mmap really can't hack the idea right now. A pity cos if you> hack it in and make sure you never unmap it you get 2-3% better X performance

i tried to hack this half a year ago, but had to find out that 4MB pagesare only valid for kernel mappings, which means we'd have to make X a ring0 process too ...

-- mingo

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